Thank you, Mr. Speaker. You know, the rent scale ranges from $32 a month to about $2,000 a month, Mr. Speaker, on the rent scale that this government holds. I don't think you can get any rent from people asking to lower my $32 a month rent. You know, actually, some people are willing, probably, to pay more rent if they could probably get a fair assessment of their rent based on perhaps their net income, not gross income. If somebody's netting $1,500 and taking home $900 but their rent is still coming in at $1,800 a month, Mr. Speaker, that's...In Detah or in Colville Lake, you know, $1,800 a month is based on Yellowknife rent and vacancy rates here in Yellowknife, not in the communities, Mr. Speaker. So we have to get that straight. Also, the Housing Corporation thinks it's fair; the Housing Corporation doesn't collect the rent, Mr. Speaker, it's the LHOs, the people that live in the community have to go out and collect that rent. So the Housing Corporation really has nothing to do with the collection of rent and, therefore, it's not their issue of how much the rent is going to be. So I want to ask the Minister, is the department going to revisit the rent scale because it's old; it's 15 years old, Mr. Speaker. We've got to do something different, make a change that people...
Robert Villeneuve on Question 39-15(6): Public Housing Rent Scale
In the Legislative Assembly on May 9th, 2007. See this statement in context.
Supplementary To Question 39-15(6): Public Housing Rent Scale
Question 39-15(6): Public Housing Rent Scale
Item 7: Oral Questions
May 8th, 2007
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